news.am, Armenia
April 24 2010

U.S. President unlikely to utter `genocide’

11:17 / 04/24/2010On April 24, during his annual address to the
Armenian people, U.S. President is most likely to do what he did last
year ` Barack Obama will say the phrase `Medz Yeghern’ instead of
uttering the word `genocide.’ He will maneuver so as not make either
Turkey or the million-strong Armenian Diaspora angry, Andrey Areshev,
Deputy Director of the Strategic Culture Foundation told NEWS.am.

As regard the Armenian Genocide resolution, it will share the fate of
the previous ones, which, under the White House pressure, were either
rejected or remained undiscussed. `But I think that the Armenian
Genocide will always be kept as a trump card for pressuring Turkey.
The discussion of the Armenian Genocide by the British and Bulgarian
Parliaments are also part of the USA’s game to pressure Turkey,’
Areshev said.

The expert also stressed that the reason for the U.S. interest in the
establishment of Armenian-Turkish relations are not at all
humanitarian. Rather, the United States is pursuing its geopolitical
goals, namely, pressuring Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Specifically,
the situation surrounding Iran is much more complicated now, as the
United States has succeeded in bringing discord into Russian-Iranian
relations. `Russia, in turn, preoccupied with its own socio-economic
problems, is not pursuing an active regional policy. In this
situation, the Russian-Armenian relations are a stabilizing factor,
and the level of the bilateral relations must by no means become
lower, as it will have negative consequences for both Armenia and
Russia,’ the expert said.

T.P.